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The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it's mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean I like microwaves but it pisses me off it wants to know the date and this goes for any item that wants internet access. Time I get. Its sorta convenient to have it show it when its not doing anything else but why the F do you think you need to know the date. Im not setting you to go cook something later. Really it comes down to it refusing to work after power loss until you put in time and date. My microwave always thinks the days start on november eleventh two thousand eleven.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Air Fryers.

It's a tiny convection oven.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yes, and it's glorious.

I don't have space for a full sized oven, and I am also convinced the little guy turns out better results than the proper convection oven my mom used to have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Technology Connections has shown me that air fryers are just a glorified toaster oven. They don't do really anything better, so just stick to a toaster oven.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

My twin tub washing machine. Fucking POS doesn't spin properly, so i just give up most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Both Costco and Sam's club make these ice cream makers in the wooden buckets. The motors have flimsy PET plastic gears. I get it. Strip out a replaceable gear rather than burn out the wires in a motor, easy easier repair, right? Wrong, I have a nearly identical ice cream maker that's 60 years old, the motor still works great. Metal gears, just gotta oil and maintain it regularly because it gets near salt water and gets splashed occasionally over the decades. The new ones strip out the damn gears after two batches of ice cream.

My solution ended up being to get an ice cream maker with built in refrigerant, but then I needed to get it recharged and that'll cost a much as the machine itself. Thanks a ton, breville. I'm saving up for a professional machine now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My plumbing pisses me off, does that count

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Any device someone ask my help with figuring out. Its rarely the appliance that pisses me off and more the blatant learned helplessness and fundimental inability for fellow adults to rub two braincells together on figuring out a new thing or to troubleshoot a simple problem. A lifetime of being the techie fixer bitch slave constantly delegated the responsibility of figuring out everyones crap for them has left me jaded to the average persons mental capacity and basic logical application abilities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If my work computer counts as an appliance, then that (I have been using a mac for 2 years now for work and am hating nearly every moment of it).

Other than that, I'm not really sure I have one.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Our gas stove. Unreliable AF, and has a tendency to cook unevenly. The oven also fucking sucks. Multi-thousand dollar premium PoS. I miss my resistive electric stoves.

On the other hand, the air fryer never burns things and almost never has issues.

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